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27 years of experience working with public and civil society organisations to improve performance, lesson-learning and accountability in over 20 countries and in the UK.

Solid grasp of evaluation and performance assessment methodologies, combined with practical experience working with organisations to analyse performance, communicate the results to policy makers and assist organisations to implement improvements.

Responsive to external accountability demands; sensitive to the political and organisational implications of evaluation.

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How do you assess an intervention where the outcomes are long-term and hard to predict, there is little ‘hard’ or definitive ‘objective’ data on which to judge progress in the meantime, and anyway the relationship between effort and results is non-linear and the programme’s influence is at best indirect and small (but hopefully important nonetheless). …

Currently engaged in some fascinating work : – leading an evaluation of a decade of Australian electoral assistance in the Asia Pacific region; – devising a meaningful evaluation approach for DFID’s South Asia Water Governance Programme; and – advising the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on monitoring Phase 2 of the Knowledge Sector Initiative, a program …